She’s really a gay activist with an anti-Catholic agenda. She presented herself to the priest before Mass with her “lover” (her words, not his), and he quietly told her she was not to present herself for Holy Communion. Well, she did anyway, and he quietly told her then that he could not allow her to receive Holy Communion. He was following Canon 915, I believe, in refusing her.
She, on the other hand, went public and has tried to make a huge scandal about this because it was her mother’s funeral (trying to pluck the heartstrings of the misty-eyed, weak-kneed liberals, I guess). It was she, however, who chose this venue to further her activist agenda, not the priest.
The Washington Post, ever ready to support the gay agenda and anything anti-Catholic, immediately printed a front-page scandal story about how the Church “hurt” this “poor” woman. The archdiocese immediately sent a knee-jerk reaction apology without checking the facts. Now, the archdiocese has suspected the priestly faculties of this priest and removed him from active ministry. They say it’s for something entirely unrelated, but it looks highly suspicious. This isn’t my first rodeo, as Dr. Phil says. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck…it’s probably a duck.
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